London-based photographer Danilo Murru confronts his past in an exhibition at Gareth Gardner Gallery opening on 12 July. He revisits his native Sardinia more than a quarter of a century after he “escaped”.

This photographic journey, showing as part of Deptford X art festival fringe 2025, explores Danilo’s emotional reconnection with the island.

The Furthest Point Was Home is captured as a series of spatial fragments, inscrutable moments and insignificantdetails, as well as unexpected encounters with people he met along the way.

The project avoids the tourist cliché of Sardinia as a Mediterranean holiday paradise, instead roaming the streets of Danilo's home city Cagliari and other locations across the island.

“I drove to remote and rural villages where I have never been before,” says Danilo. “I wandered for hours, barely seeing a soul, sometimes nobody at all.”

A version of the exhibition was shown to great acclaim earlier this year at Il Ghetto arts centre in Cagliari. For Deptford X, Danilo has worked with curator Gareth Gardner to present a new selection of images, presented to encourage exhibition visitors to make their own connections with the work.

The exhibition is accompanied by the second printing of the project catalogue, designed by Tim George. It features essays by Andrea Deiana Porcu and Gareth Gardner, with an introduction by Danilo Murru.

Limited-edition fine art prints will also be available to purchase.

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Graphic design and identity Tim George
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